Careful who you invite on a long term bike tour.
Stew and I were weeks into our relationship when he said, “I’ve got something to tell you.”
“Great,” I thought, expecting the worst.
He continued, “in 9 months I’m going to quit my job and cycle around the world. Do you want to come?”
“Yes!” I said instantly.
“Don’t you want to think about it first?”
“I just did.”
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Stew had already saved a fair whack for his planned solo bike tour around the world through 30+ countries. He mapped a turn by turn route for 24,000 miles.
After he met me, he invited me along.
Our relationship moved fast, he moved in and we saved a lot in those ten months before we left the UK.
Between March 2019 and 2020 we cycled around 13,000 to Vietnam. We cycled through China in January 2020 just as covid was kicking off. By March 2020 we took the last plane home. We were gutted.
We moved to Scotland in 2021 where we enjoyed micro adventures as we waited for covid to pass.
In March 2023 we flew back to Vietnam, back to the exact place we’d left and restarted our trip around the world.
We cycled to Singapore, flew to Australia and cycled along the south coast Perth to Sydney.
From Sydney we flew to New Zealand. It was there we organised a spontaneous wedding elopement. Within four weeks of landing in Queenstown we were planning a wedding > engaged > married.
It was a whirlwind!
We’re now in Chile and will cycle over the Andes to Argentina, then Brazil. After, we fly to Europe and cycle Portugal, Spain and France which completes our circumnavigation on the world by bike.
It’s been quite the adventure.
Careful who you invite on tour. After we were married , a fellow tourist said, if you go on a tour with someone you will end up single or married 😋
Happy touring everyone 🚴♀️💕🚴♂️
by ZoeAdel
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Congratulations!! Happy and safe travels, on bike and in marriage.
After my last tour I was so hungry I married someone named Stew